Vaginal Davis, The White to be Angry, 1999 Film still. © Vaginal Davis. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.

Artist talk: Vaginal Davis

Magnificent Product

18.5 2024

Stockholm

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Vaginal Davis is in Stockholm! Meet Ms. Davis for a once-in-a-lifetime, not-be-missed, all-the-tea-spilled conversation with Moderna Museet curator Hendrik Folkerts.

Artist talk: Vaginal Davis

Magnificent Product

Date

Saturday 18 May 2024

Time

14–15.30

Location

The Auditorium

Language

English

Price

100 SEK, 80 SEK for members of Klubb Moderna, students and pensioners

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Contact: Karin Malmquist

Artist Vaginal Davis’ first major solo exhibition “Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product” at Moderna Museet and other venues in Stockholm celebrates her pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre, from the early days of queer punk in 1970s Los Angeles to the Rote Insel in present-day Berlin.

Hear her in a conversation with curator Hendrik Folkerts during the opening day of the exhibition.

Vaginal Davis, Wanda Coleman, 2021 © Vaginal Davis. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.

Vaginal Davis, Wanda Coleman (back), 2021 © Vaginal Davis. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.

“Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product” also takes place at the following partner institutions in Stockholm:

Nationalmuseum

3 May–20 October 2024
We highlight Ms. Davis’s painting practice as well as her life-long fascination with Oz in a new installation in the Nationalmuseum’s The Old Library.

Accelerator, Stockholm University

17 May–15 September 2024
In the exhibition titled “Choose Mutation”, which includes a live performance, Vaginal Davis’s work with (and as part of) the CHEAP art collective takes center stage.

Index – Swedish Foundation for Contemporary Art

17 May–1 September 2024
In a new installation titled “Vaginal Davis’s Hofpfisterei”, we dive into Vaginal Davis’s writing practice, from her years as teen correspondent in Los Angeles and her groundbreaking zines that held scenes together, to her mature years as a friction-writer.

MDT (Moderna Dansteatern)

4 September 2024
Together with My Wild Flag dance and performance festival, we are bringing Vaginal Davis’s cinerama movie experience to MDT! Please join Ms. Davis for an annotated screening of Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz” (1979) and Miloš Forman’s “Hair” (1979) on September 4.

Tensta Konsthall

7–8 September 2024
At the end of this “magnificent product”, you are invited to a weekend-long festival with lecturinas, performances, and screenings.